LYMANTRIINAE, EREBIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species appears to be yellow all over, although the specimen that Strand described and illustrated had a black abdomen. The moth has a wingspan of about 4.5 cms.
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Embrik Strand,
Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region,
in Adalbert Seitz (ed.):
The Macrolepidoptera of the World,
Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag, Volume 10 (1933), p. 361, and also
Plate 44, row g, figure 5 from the left.
Note that the oft quoted reference to:
K.W. von Dalla Torre & Embrik Strand,
Lepidopterorum catalogus,
Part 31 (1925)
is wrong as this volume is about a totally different Lepidoptera family :
AEGERIIDAE in a totally different superfamily SESIOIDEA,
and neither the word 'euproctis' nor 'urbis' occur in this volume.
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(written 14 November 2023)